Rosemary Wise |
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 Photo: John Baker |
Rosemary Wise has been employed as botanical artist for the department of Plant Sciences in Oxford since 1965, and is also associate member of the staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Rosemary has illustrated many books and scientific papers, and assisted with undergraduate teaching. She has accompanied expeditions to many places to illustrate plants, including Bolivia, Grenada, Kenya, Malaysia, Peru, Portugal, Scandinavia, Seychelles, Spain, West Papua and Papua New Guinea. She has run courses, mostly in watercolour techniques, at Oxford Botanic Garden and has also conducted illustration courses for botanists in Bolivia, Sweden, Kenya, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Rosemary was awarded the prestigious, annual international Jill Smythies award for published botanical illustration, from the Linnaean society of London. |
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She has written and illustrated, with the help of a Churchill fellowship, her own book "A Fragile Eden". This features paintings and descriptions of all the endemic plants of the granitic Seychelles, and was published by Princeton University Press in 1998. |
 Photo: William Hawthorne |
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 Photo: John Baker |
Some of Rosemary's work can be seen in the VFH image gallery. We hope to gradually add to her prodigious output.
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